Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Lucy Larcom Sailing away! Losing the breath of the shores in May, Dropping down from the beautiful bay, Over the sea-mpe vast and gray! And the skipper's eyes with a mist are blind; For a vision comes on the rising wind, Of a gentle face that he leaves behind, And a heart that throbs through the fog-bank Thinking of him. Far into night, He watches the gleam of the lessening light Fixed on the dangerous island height, That bars the harbor he loves from sight And he wishes, at dawn, he could tell the tale Of how they had weathered the southwest gale, TO brighten the cheek that had grown so pale With a wakeful night among spectres grim, Terrors for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.